{"id":1440,"date":"2020-06-24T11:23:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T10:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/?page_id=1440"},"modified":"2022-12-03T22:07:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T22:07:06","slug":"les-livres-sacres-de-la-disciplina","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/etruscan-mythology\/the-sacred-books-of-disciplina\/","title":{"rendered":"The sacred books of disciplina"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1440\" class=\"elementor elementor-1440\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-72d7cf9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"72d7cf9\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-966c56d\" data-id=\"966c56d\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-290d00b elementor-align-justify elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"290d00b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/etruscan-mythology\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Etruscan mythology<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-512345b\" data-id=\"512345b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-398c89b elementor-align-justify elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"398c89b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Religion_%C3%A9trusque\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Wiki<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4e005669 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4e005669\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-41db1584\" data-id=\"41db1584\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5997cc8e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5997cc8e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><\/p>\n<p>The ancients called the <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/book-libraries\/\">books<\/a> sacred to the discipline thus the set of several books, consisting of various religious treatises, of which no original text in the language <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/etruscan-mythology\/\">Etruscan<\/a> did not reach us. We only know of them through the Latin authors, and we only know what they said about them, which nevertheless allows us to be certain that they existed.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The first two deal with the art of divination, both through the examination of the viscera of sacrificed animals and of thunderbolts. The third concerned the rule of cults for the foundation of cities and the consecration of sanctuaries, the fourth of the world beyond the grave, and the last of fate and the limits of life.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5284 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/AlphaOmega-e1602613368367.png\" alt=\"sacred books of disciplina\" width=\"25\" height=\"26\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseprofile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/etruscan-mythology\/the-sacred-books-of-disciplina\/#Disciplina-des-Foudres-Libri-fulgurales\" >Discipline of Lightning; Fulgurales Libri<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/etruscan-mythology\/the-sacred-books-of-disciplina\/#Disciplina-du-rite-Libri-rituales\" >Discipline of the rite; Libri rituales<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/etruscan-mythology\/the-sacred-books-of-disciplina\/#DIsciplina-de-lAu-dela-Libri-Acheruntici\" >DIsciplina of the Hereafter; Libri Acheruntici<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/etruscan-mythology\/the-sacred-books-of-disciplina\/#Disciplina-des-Haruspices-Libri-haruspicini\" >Discipline of Haruspices; Libri haruspicini<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Disciplina-des-Foudres-Libri-fulgurales\"><\/span>Discipline of Lightning; Fulgurales Libri<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Attributed to Vegoia, known to us from Seneca and Pliny. The thunderbolt doctrine laid out the meaning of thunderclaps for each day of the year. A lightning also derived its meaning according to the part of the sky from which it originated and where it fell. The sky, divided into sixteen sections, therefore constituted a virtual language, itself constituted by the meteorological phenomena which occurred there. Eleven types of lightning were listed, wielded by different gods.<\/p>\n<p>So the message was different each time and it was up to the specialists who were the haruspices to interpret them. We can see there analogies with the Chaldean doctrine and perceive an influence of the Meteorologica of pseudo-Aristotle. The fundamental schema is however archaic and is based on the macrocosm \/ microcosm binomial.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Disciplina-du-rite-Libri-rituales\"><\/span>Discipline of the rite; Libri rituales<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Several areas of action that are decisive for social organization and town planning:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the foundation of towns, the cadastre, property lines<\/li>\n<li>hydraulic techniques for the location of water tables, those of artesian wells, irrigation canals, sewers.<\/li>\n<li>the consecration of temples,<\/li>\n<li>inviolability of the ramparts, laws relating to the gates, division into tribes,\u00a0<em>curiae<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>centuriae<\/em>,<\/li>\n<li>organization of armies, practices relating to war and peace.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>divided into several other books:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em><strong>libri fatales<\/strong><\/em>, the division of the moments of life or <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/book-libraries\/\">book<\/a> of fate<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>libri Acherontici<\/strong><\/em>, on the afterlife and the passage from life to death and the tombs.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Ostentaria<\/strong><\/em>, offerings to the divinities according to the acts of life.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>libri exercituales<\/strong><\/em>, reduced form of\u00a0<em>libri<\/em>\u00a0for the haruspice accompanying the armies on the ground of their exploits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>According to these &quot;Books of Destiny&quot;, human life unfolds in twelve stages. After the twelfth, men, according to Varro, &quot;go out of their minds&quot; and no longer receive any sign from the gods. Likewise, peoples and nations have a term fixed by the Cosmos. This belief in a cosmic as well as existential determinism, which is found in many traditional societies, is a very old conception.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"DIsciplina-de-lAu-dela-Libri-Acheruntici\"><\/span>DIsciplina of the Hereafter; Libri Acheruntici<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>attributed to Tames, this treaty, for the few fragments that we have, hardly allows the comparison with the Egyptian Book of the Dead. According to Arnobe (Adversus Nationes, II, 62), Christian author of the 4th century, \u201cin his Libri Acherontici, Etruria promises that, through the blood of certain animals offered to certain deities, souls will become divine and will escape mortality \u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to information reported by Servius (ad Aen. III 168), following certain sacrifices souls are transformed into gods who are designated as animal to recall their origin. The &quot;divinization of souls&quot; thus appears to us to be attested, giving an eschatological dimension to the religion of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/etruscan-mythology\/\">Etruscans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If the essence of their religious thought escapes us, one can however deduce certain elements from it: in the case of a deification of the soul following bloody rituals, this refers either to a very archaic ritual and well prior to the Etruscan civilization, that is, what is much more probable, with a sacrifice-sacrament comparable to the inititaion in the Mysteries of Mithras.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Disciplina-des-Haruspices-Libri-haruspicini\"><\/span>Discipline of Haruspices; Libri haruspicini<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Attributed to Tag\u00e8s and completed by the Libri Fatali. The theory of Haruspices or Haruspucine, or Haruspicia according to others, that is to say the reading of the entrails of the sacrificed victims, presupposes the correspondence between three different levels: the divine, the cosmic and the human.<\/p>\n<p>Each portion of the organ examined indicates a divine decision predicting an impending historical event. There is a bronze model of a sheep&#039;s liver, discovered at Plaisance in 1977, serving as a model comprising the names of some forty gods and dating from the 3rd or 2nd century BC and representing the structure of the world and the distribution of the pantheon.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Etruscan Mythology Wiki The ancients named the sacred books of the disciplina thus the set of several books, consisting of different \u2026 <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1366,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1440","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24736,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1440\/revisions\/24736"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}